Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landing itself was fitted with two large , double-glazed skylights in the sloping ceiling , which I now realized were responsible for the light and feeling of airiness throughout the upper floors . |
| 2 | After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . |
| 3 | The Netherlands space agency , NIVR , had been responsible for the spacecraft that carries the telescope , and which houses the instruments to control the satellite 's ‘ attitude ’ , or pointing direction , and to store the data collected . |
| 4 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 5 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 6 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 7 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 8 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 9 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 10 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 11 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 12 | Denning had referred in his report to their speeches in the House on 21 March 1963 and had commented that their remarks clearly imputed that Profumo had been responsible for the disappearance of Christine Keeler . |
| 13 | The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans . |
| 14 | Two other Grand Councillors , appointed at the same time , were Leslie Edwards , who had been responsible for the organisation of the Cardiff gathering , and Alec Taylor , who had been a member of the BDDA since 1907 , and a Vice-president since 1937 . |
| 15 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 16 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |
| 17 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 18 | As a consequence of its success , the Northumbrian establishment which had been responsible for the débâcle of Nechtanesmere and the limited recovery under Aldfrith perpetuated itself in power a little longer and sporadic warfare with the Picts was resumed . |
| 19 | Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will . |
| 20 | It is true that oceanic , river , lake , and only rudimentary land transport had been responsible for the extension of Christendom and the transfer of Iberian culture to Latin America and elsewhere , for the establishment of Dutch power in the East , British hegemony in India , French authority in North Africa , and the carving out of the great territories of white settlement . |
| 21 | It was known that Implexion had been responsible for the dissolution of many sects in Gleberune , and that he would resort to violence if his injunctions were not obeyed . |
| 22 | The third class of sites covers those developed linear and road-junction sites where increasingly centralized tendencies had been responsible for the growth of an irregular internal street system well beyond the initial main roads . |
| 23 | For a time she had even innocently believed that Luke 's father 's recent death had been responsible for the anger she had sensed in him , until she gradually grew aware that it was something personal , directed at her , his dealings with most of the station 's personnel characterised by charm , his impatience with any inadequacies purely professional . |
| 24 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 25 | During his four-year term the police had acquired significantly more political and executive power , and Badr had been responsible for the arrests of thousands of Moslem militants and alleged leftists . |
| 26 | The issue of the Securitate , which had maintained Ceausescu in power and had been responsible for the bloodshed in the week following the revolution , was another factor which fuelled mistrust . |
| 27 | The government 's assurances came amidst reports that US officials , meeting with the Crown Prince in March , had submitted evidence showing that one of his sons and a nephew had been responsible for the organization of anti-Palestinian " death squads " . |
| 28 | Factors in the resignation of Cardoso de Mello 's team — which had been responsible for the anti-inflation programmes of March 1990 and February 1991 — were variously said to include the unpopularity in business and banking sectors of their interventionist policies , the combative style adopted in negotiations with international debtors , recent clashes with members of the President 's inner circle , including regional development secretary Egberto Baptista who had been accused of malpractice , and Cardoso de Mello 's affair in 1990 with the then Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 29 | An inquiry into the crash concluded in December that pilot error had been responsible for the accident [ see also p. 37898 ] . |
| 30 | He denied that the paramilitaries had been linked to the drug traffickers or had been responsible for the massacres of campesinos attributed to them . |